Hotel Orion

(and other places in my neighborhood)
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a person standing on top of a hill under a sky filled with stars and reindeers
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Solar system and constellations by Brendandraws on Etsy
an image of three different circles in the sky
Scientific Illustration
humanoidhistory: Illustrating the Sun in eclipse in the Atlas of Astronomy, 1855, by Alexander Keith Johnston. (Linda Hall Library)
fireworks are lit up in the night sky
Leonids 1999 / Leoniden 1999
November-12 1833 | Leoniden-Sturm über Nordamerika am 12./13. November 1833. Die ...
saturn's rings are seen in this image taken by nasa
Groovy Rings of Saturn - NASA
Groovy Rings of Saturn | NASA
an old book cover with a circle in the center and stars on it, surrounded by clouds
Scientific Illustration
View of the planetary orbits according to Tycho Brahe in a 1719 edition of Description de L’Universe by Alain Manesson Mallet, Paris.
a drawing of an octopus in the night sky
Orion by Ciaran Duffy- a tad too primitif, nice belt, though.
an old chinese scroll with writing on it
Dunhuang star chart dated to the Tang Dynasty (618 - 907 CE)
an old photo of the moon taken in black and white
John Adams Whipple | The Moon | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
John Adams Whipple and James Wallace Black, The Moon, 1857
an old book with some sort of diagram on it
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Eleven stars around the sun. I mean, what? The star is called the Sun, we are planets called each differently, (but let's not start the lame 8 or 9 debate now) BUT who is Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta? Complaining Goddesses?
an old manuscript with many different numbers and symbols on the pages, all written in arabic
Mythology of Blue
Arabic Star Lists, c. 1065 CE. The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. The earliest compilation of Ptolemy’s constellations became codified only in the 9th century CE, after it was published in Arabic
drops of water on the leaves of a plant
What are the most amazing photos you have ever taken?
I see Orion...!